Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
Theodor AdornoThe lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
Theodor AdornoThe individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.
Theodor AdornoThe good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Theodor Adorno